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Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

By: Matt O'Leary,Vanessa Cui

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Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

By: Matt O'Leary,Vanessa Cui

Offering interdisciplinary, evidence-informed discussion and practical resources for using observation as a tool of educational inquiry to enhance understanding and the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, this book draws on forward-thinking, contemporary research. Illustrated with real examples and case studies of collaborative observation from a range of subject areas, it provides a conceptual and practical guide for harnessing observation to better understand the relationship between teaching and learning. This is a must-read book for all those interested and involved in using observation to understand, develop and improve the quality of teaching and learning in higher education.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000863654

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9781000863659

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

By: Vanessa Lide Whitcomb,Michael Benson

This work provides an informative guide to the roots of modern China. It also looks at the key challenges and opportunities that face China in the 21st century.

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Penguin

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0028643860

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9780028643861

The Role of Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition

From Theory to Practice

By: Vanessa Leonardi

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The Role of Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition

From Theory to Practice

By: Vanessa Leonardi

Translation can help improve foreign language teaching and learning - this study shows how. In an increasingly globalised world and in an increasingly multilingual Europe, translation plays an important role. Significant signs of a new revival of translation in language teaching have become visible, as shown by recent literature on applied linguistics. This book contributes to this movement, embracing both a theoretical and an empirical purpose by integrating viewpoints from Applied Linguistics, Translation Studies and Second Language Acquisition. In an attempt to show how the use of translation in foreign language classes can help enhance and further improve reading, writing, speaking and listening skills, this work calls for a re-evaluation and a rehabilitation of the translation activities in the foreign language classes.

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182

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Peter Lang

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3034300875

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9783034300872

Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

By: Vanessa Mak

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Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

By: Vanessa Mak

The relevance of contracting and self-regulation in consumer markets has increased rapidly in recent years, in particular in the platform economy. Online platforms provide opportunities for businesses and consumers to connect with strangers, often across borders, trading products, and services. In this new economy, platform operators create, apply and enforce their own rules in their contractual relationships with users. This book examines the substance of these rules and the space for private governance beyond the reach of state regulation. Vanessa Mak explores recent developments in lawmaking 'beyond the state' with case studies focusing on companies such as Airbnb and Amazon. The book asks how common values and objectives of EU law, such as consumer protection and contractual fairness, can be safeguarded when lawmaking shifts to a space outside the reach of state law.

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Oxford University Press

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0192596683

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9780192596680

Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

By: Vanessa B Gorman,Robert Gorman

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Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

By: Vanessa B Gorman,Robert Gorman

A widely accepted truism says that luxury corrupts, and in both popular and scholarly treatments, the ancient city of Sybaris remains the model for destructive opulence. This volume demonstrates the scarcity of evidence for Sybarite luxury, and examines the vocabulary of luxury used by the Hellenic world. Focus on the word truphe reveals it means an attitude of entitlement: not necessarily a bad trait, unless in extreme form. This pattern holds for all Classical evidence, even the historian Herodotus, where the idea of pernicious luxury is commonly thought to be thematic. Advancing a new method to evaluate this fragmentary evidence, the authors argue that almost all relevant ancient testimony is liable to have been distorted during transmission. They present two conclusions: first, that there exists no principle of pernicious luxury as a force of historical causation in Hellenic or Hellenistic literature. Rather, that idea is derived from early Latin prose historiography and introduced from that genre into the Greek writers of the Roman period, who in turn project the process back in time to explain events such as the fall of Sybaris. The second conclusion is methodological. The authors lay down a strategy to determine the content and extent of fragments of earlier authors found in cover texts such as Athenaeus, by examining the diction along synchronic and diachronic lines. This book will appeal to scholars of intellectual history, the history of morality, and historiographical methodology.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472120468

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9780472120468

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

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Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Between the Global and the Local

By: Vanessa Knights

How are national identities constructed and articulated through music? Popular music has long been associated with political dissent, and the nation state has consistently demonstrated a determination to seek out and procure for itself a stake in the management of 'its' popular musics. Similarly, popular musics have been used 'from the ground up' as sites for both populist and popular critiques of nationalist sentiment, from the position of both a globalizing and a 'local' vernacular culture. The contributions in this book arrive at a critical moment in the development of the study of national cultures and musicology. The book ranges from considerations of the ideological focus of cultural nationalism through to analyses of musical hybridity and musical articulations of other kinds of identities at odds with national identity. The processes of global homogenization are thereby shown to have brought about a transitional crisis for national cultural identities: the evolution of these identities, particularly with reference to the concept of 'authenticity' in music, is situated within broader debates on power, political economy and constructions of the self. Theorizations of practice are employed after the manner of Bourdieu, Gramsci, Goffman, Gadamer, Habermas, Bhabha, Lacan and Zizek. Each contribution acts as a case study to characterize the strategies through which differing modes of musical discourse engage, critique or obscure discourses on national identity. The studies include discussions of: musical representations of Irishness; the relationship between Afropop and World Music; Norwegian club music; the revival of traditional music in Serbia; resistance to cultural homogeneity in Brazil; contemporary Uyghur song in Northwest China; rap and race in French society; technobanda from the barrios of Los Angeles, and Spanish/Moroccan raï. In this way, the book seeks to characterize the ideological configurations that help to activate and sustain hegemonic, amb

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Routledge

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1317091590

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9781317091592

Organic and Carbon Gels

From Laboratory Synthesis to Applications

By: Ana Arenillas,J. Angel Menéndez,Gudrun Reichenauer,Alain Celzard,Vanessa Fierro,Francisco José Maldonado Hodar,Esther Bailόn-Garcia,Nathalie Job

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Organic and Carbon Gels

From Laboratory Synthesis to Applications

By: Ana Arenillas,J. Angel Menéndez,Gudrun Reichenauer,Alain Celzard,Vanessa Fierro,Francisco José Maldonado Hodar,Esther Bailόn-Garcia,Nathalie Job

This expert volume provides specialized coverage of the current state of the art in carbon gels. Carbon gels represent a promising class of materials with high added value applications and many assets, like the ability to accurately tailor their structure, porosity, and surface composition and easily dope them with numerous species. The ability to obtain them in custom shapes, such as powder, beads, monoliths, or impregnated scaffolds opens the way towards numerous applications, including catalysis, adsorption, and electrochemical energy storage, among others. Nevertheless, it remains a crucial question as to which design synthesis and manufacturing processes are viable from an economic and environmental point of view. The book represents the perspectives of renowned specialists in the field, specially invited to conduct a one-day workshop devoted to carbon gels as part of the 19th International Sol-Gel Conference, SOL-GEL 2017, held on September 3rd, 2017 in Liège, Belgium. Addressing properties and synthesis through applications and industry outlook, this book represents essential reading for advanced graduate students through practicing researchers interested in these exciting materials.

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Springer

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3030138976

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9783030138974

The No-nonsense Guide to World Population

By: Vanessa Baird

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The No-nonsense Guide to World Population

By: Vanessa Baird

Is the world heading for a population explosion? How many people can the planet sustain? With the world's inhabitants passing the seven billion count and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, the world is on the brink of a number panic. A new addition to this acclaimed series takes a closer look at what these numbers mean, why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what societal changes this increase will initiate and how having babies relates to climate change.

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138

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New Internationalist

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1906523460

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9781906523466

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Women Writers and the Supernatural

By: Vanessa D. Dickerson

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Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Women Writers and the Supernatural

By: Vanessa D. Dickerson

An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Missouri Press

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0826210813

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9780826210814

Hospicing Modernity

Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

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Hospicing Modernity

Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira

A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against Purity This book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of. Driven by expansion, colonialism, and resource extraction and propelled by neoliberalism and rabid consumption, our world is profoundly out of balance. We take more than we give; we inoculate ourselves in positive self-regard while continuing to make harmful choices; we wreak irreparable havoc on the ecosystems, habitats, and beings with whom we share our planet. But instead of drowning in hopelessness, how can we learn to face our reality with humility and accountability? Machado de Oliveira breaks down archetypes of cognitive dissonance—the do-gooder who does “good enough,” then retreats to business as usual; the incognito capitalist who, at first glance, may seem like a radical change-maker—and asks us to dig deeper and exist differently. She explains how our habits, behaviors, and belief systems hold us back . . . and why it's time now to gradually disinvest. Including exercises used with teachers, NGO practitioners, and global changemakers, she offers us thought experiments that ask us to: • Reimagine how we learn, unlearn, and respond to crisis • Better assess our surroundings and interact with difference, uncertainty, complexity, and failure • Expand our capacity to hold personal and collective space for difficult and painful things • Understand the “5 modern-colonial e’s”: Entitlements, Exceptionalism, Exaltation, Emancipation, and Enmeshment in low-intensity struggle activism • Interrupt our satisfaction with modern-colonial desires that cause harm • Create space for change driven neither by desperate hope nor a fear of desolate hopelessness For fans of adrienne maree brown, Sherri Mitchell, and Arundhati Roy, Hospicing Modernity challenges our assumptions and dares to ask more of us, for the sake of us all.

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305

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North Atlantic Books

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1623176247

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9781623176242

Creating The World We Want To Live In

How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

By: Bridget Grenville-Cleave,Dóra Guðmundsdóttir,Felicia Huppert,Vanessa King,David Roffey,Sue Roffey,Marten de Vries

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Creating The World We Want To Live In

How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

By: Bridget Grenville-Cleave,Dóra Guðmundsdóttir,Felicia Huppert,Vanessa King,David Roffey,Sue Roffey,Marten de Vries

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in. Our hope is to provoke conversation, and gently challenge possibly long-held views, beliefs, and ideologies about the way the world works and the people in that world. Written by eminent researchers and experienced practitioners, the book explores the principles that underpin living well, and gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life from childhood to ageing, the foundations of everyday flourishing, including health and relationships, and finally wellbeing in the wider world, addressing issues such as economics, politics and the environment. Based in the scientific evidence of what works and supported by illustrations of good practice, this book is both ambitious and aspirational. The book is designed for a wide audience – anyone seeking to create positive change in the world, their institutions or communities. www.creatingtheworldwewanttolivein.org

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Routledge

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1000360865

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Helping Your Anxious Child

A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents

By: Ronald Rapee,Ann Wignall,Susan Spence,Vanessa Cobham,Heidi Lyneham

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Helping Your Anxious Child

A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents

By: Ronald Rapee,Ann Wignall,Susan Spence,Vanessa Cobham,Heidi Lyneham

With more than 150,000 copies sold, this fully revised and updated edition of the classic self-help guide for parents offers cutting-edge, proven-effective techniques for helping your child overcome anxiety and thrive. Most children are afraid of the dark. Some fear monsters under the bed. But at least ten percent of children have excessive fears and worries―phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorder―that can hold them back and keep them from fully enjoying childhood. If your child suffers from any of these forms of anxiety, this book offers new, practical, and evidence-based proven tools that can help. Now in its third edition, Helping Your Anxious Child has been expanded and updated to include the latest research and techniques for managing child anxiety, and includes new information on helping very young children and adolescents; as well as anxiety in children with behavioral problems, learning difficulties, or medical conditions. The book offers proven-effective skills based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure therapy, and mindfulness and relaxation techniques to aid you in helping your child overcome intense fears and worries. You'll also find out how to relieve your child's anxious feelings while parenting with compassion. Parents will learn: How to help your child practice “detective thinking” to recognize irrational worries What to do when your child becomes frightened How to expose your child gently and gradually to challenging situations How to help your child learn important social skills Also included are links to a free downloadable workbook for parents, and an activity book for kids. The kid-friendly, illustrated activity book will help your child take an active role in learning to manage their anxiety, as they learn and practice the skills outlined in Helping Your Anxious Child.

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New Harbinger Publications

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1684039932

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Turkey

By: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc.,Jennifer Hattam,Vanessa Larson,Scott Newman

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Turkey

By: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc.,Jennifer Hattam,Vanessa Larson,Scott Newman

Examines Turkey as a frontier land of contrasts, antiquity, and crosscultural influences, and offers practical information on accommodations, restaurants, shopping, and unusual sights and activities.

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Fodor's

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0307928438

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9780307928436

Sports Technology and Innovation

Assessing Cultural and Social Factors

By: Vanessa Ratten

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Sports Technology and Innovation

Assessing Cultural and Social Factors

By: Vanessa Ratten

The aim of this book is to focus on the role of sports technology and the way that the innovation process is managed. This will help understand how technology is developed and integrated into the sports context. This is important particularly due to rapid technological advancements developed in sport being applied to other industries. The book will focus on the different types of sports technology from increment to radical innovations, including looking at product, process, and service innovations. It will be one of the first books to specifically focus on sports technology and innovation. It will be useful to innovation management researchers, enthusiasts and sports practitioners interested in how to compete based on technological advancements.

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Springer

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3319750461

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Research Methodologies for Business Management

By: Vanessa Ratten

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Research Methodologies for Business Management

By: Vanessa Ratten

Most existing research methodologies texts take a more general approach or are edited books of previously published articles or chapters written by different authors. This book, written by a business management scholar, covers the fundamentals of business management research and its methodologies in a seamless, unified manner. The book offers up-date methodologies and accessible explanations of the research process. It starts with advances in business management research methodology and gives a thorough overview on the different levels of analysis in the field. It builds upon the knowledge by examining both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in the context of business management. It also goes over the use of machine learning and other technological advances like AI in research and data collection, as well as how the United Nations sustainable development goals are being considered by researchers. This book will help business management students and junior researchers quickly build an essential base of knowledge and gain a strategic advantage in publishing and reviewing business related research.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000835871

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Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

By: Matt O'Leary,Vanessa Cui

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Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

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Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern China

The Role of Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition

The Role of Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition

Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

Corrupting Luxury in Ancient Greek Literature

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Music, National Identity and the Politics of Location

Organic and Carbon Gels

Organic and Carbon Gels

The No-nonsense Guide to World Population

The No-nonsense Guide to World Population

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Hospicing Modernity

Hospicing Modernity

Creating The World We Want To Live In

Creating The World We Want To Live In

Helping Your Anxious Child

Helping Your Anxious Child

Turkey

Turkey

Sports Technology and Innovation

Sports Technology and Innovation

Research Methodologies for Business Management

Research Methodologies for Business Management

Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education through Observation

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